The Gershwin Brothers Share New Video for ‘Doomscrollin’’ and Announce Forthcoming Album
The Gershwin Brothers have shared a new video for ‘Doomscrollin’’, the title track of their forthcoming second album. Solandal Records will issue the single on July 17, 2026.
The New York duo of Lane Steinberg and Dave Foster are joined by Murderers’ Row, a collective of musicians drawn from the city’s pop scene. Together, they place a distinctly contemporary subject inside a tightly constructed piece of garage rock and harmony-rich 1960s pop.
The song begins with the familiar ritual of reaching for a phone as soon as the morning alarm sounds. What initially appears to be a harmless check of the day’s news quickly becomes an unending procession of floods, fires and tragedy. A persistent drumbeat runs underneath the song, reflecting the nervous momentum of continuing to scroll despite knowing that the experience is producing anxiety rather than relief.
Lane Steinberg comments:
“Doomscrolling is the act where we all come together and rejoice in our mutual anxiety. It’s a form of prayer, looking for an answer to a question that’s ever changing but always the same.
“‘Doomscrollin’’ is also the title track of the Gershwin Brothers’ new album, a project featuring the songs of Lane Steinberg and Dave Foster, backed by the band of New York pop all-stars, Murderers’ Row. The sounds are classic, but the topic is current. Let’s all sing along and survive this together!”
Steinberg and Foster formed The Gershwin Brothers in 2017 after meeting at the Treehouse, an East Village gathering place where local musicians and songwriters exchanged songs and performed late into the night. Their first musical collaboration was a performance of The Beach Boys’ ‘Wild Honey’, after which they began writing original material together.
Their debut album, ‘God Is a Bully’, featured a wide cast of guest vocalists. On ‘Doomscrollin’’, Steinberg and Foster move to the foreground, singing their own songs and concentrating on a direct band sound built around close harmonies, acoustic guitars, sharp electric leads and compact arrangements.
The forthcoming album was produced by singer, guitarist and producer Mike Fornatale, who has performed with The Left Banke, The Monks, Moby Grape, The Washington Squares and the Losers’ Lounge. Recorded in Fornatale’s home studio, the album has a warm, intimate character built around a six-piece lineup.
Across its twelve songs and one bonus track, ‘Doomscrollin’’ draws upon The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, The Kinks and the songwriting tradition of George and Ira Gershwin. Rather than recreating a particular period, The Gershwin Brothers use that musical vocabulary to examine the distractions, fears and peculiar habits of the present day.
Solandal Records will issue ‘Doomscrollin’’ as a single on July 17, 2026. The album of the same name will follow.
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